That may be the case, but microscopic controls are how some of us want our GUIs to look. Using Windows 7 with the classic theme on a 1920x1080 display was near perfection. Even for Aero, I'd have my toolbar set to small icons and CTRL+MW_DOWN on the desktop to shrink my icons. The closest I can get now is to up my display resolution to offset the giant bars that take up more of my screenspace than they need to. Not having the option really sucks.

You can change display scaling to make GNOME small.

Microscopic.. sure, they weren't intended to look microscopic.

But you're painting an inaccurate picture here, GNOME controls are a larger ratio than they've ever been to screen real estate;

For context, this is how it looked on a 640x480 display https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GNOME-escritorio-1.x...

I don't care about how they were intended to look, I care about what the best look & feel is for me.